)While cattle are as intelligent and as lovable as dogs, I’ve found that they go through life at their own leisurely speed. Whereas dogs adapt to the rhythms of human society in all its varied forms, ...
Cattle are sensitive creatures. They have evolved a suite of sensory adaptations to detect predators at long distances. Their visual systems are highly sensitive to motion along the horizon, where dan...
Because they are wired to keep an eye out for predators, they sleep only four hours a night (and even then it’s in snatches of five minutes at a time). often say that elephants never forget, but neith...
We can, of course, discern basic emotions, like pleasure and fear. But what endears dogs to us is their apparent capacity for what we take as their version of love — the longing in their eyes to be wi...